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Using G-Solve to Analyze a Conics Graph

4-5 Using G-Solve to Analyze a Conics Graph

The G-Solve menu includes commands that let you perform a variety of different analytical processes on a graph drawn on the Conics Graph window.

Displaying the G-Solve Menu

While there is a graph on the Conics Graph window, tap [Analysis] and then [G-Solve]. You can then use the [G-Solve] menu that appears to perform one of the operations described below.

To obtain this:

Select this [G-Solve]

menu item:

 

 

 

Focus of a parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola

Focus

Vertex of a parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola

Vertex

Directrix of a parabola

Directrix

Axis of symmetry of a parabola

Symmetry

Length of the latus rectum of a parabola

Latus Rectum Length

Center point of a circle, ellipse, or hyperbola

Center

Radius of a circle

Radius

Asymptotes of a hyperbola

Asymptotes

Eccentricity of a parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola

Eccentricity

x-intercept

x-Intercept

y-intercept

y-Intercept

x-coordinate for a given y-coordinate

x-Cal

y-coordinate for a given x-coordinate

y-Cal

Tip

•Some commands are available only for certain types of graphs. Any command that is not available for the graph currently displayed on the Conics Graph window has a line through it. A parabola, for example, does not have a center, radius or asymptotes, so there are lines through the [Center], [Radius], and [Asymptotes] commands of the [G-Solve] menu when there is a parabola on the Conics Graph window.

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